Saravana Kumar, founder of Kovai.co, explains how generative AI threatens the traditional SEO and inbound-driven SaaS marketing playbook.
Opinion
Kumar: Savings Potential for Top Talent Is Higher in India Than West
“The salaries are on par, really, you know, like, the top you go, like, in fact, your, you, your saving potential will be much, much higher in India than in the West, because in the West it is kind of saturated.”
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Kumar: ₹1 Crore Tech Leadership Salaries Are Now Normal in India
“And in India, it's one crore become normal, right? Like even a bid manager and at leadership level, it became normal.”
Insight
Kumar: IT Giants Infosys and TCS Built India's Current Tech Talent Pool
“I think we need to thank all this consulting firms like Infosys and TCS and Wipos what they've done in the last 2030 years is what the talent pool, what we are seeing now, right?”
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Kumar: Most Indian software product founders started at IT services firms
“So all the, today's, all the product founders, if you look at it, if you go all the way back, they would have worked in one of those companies at some point.”
Opinion
Kumar: India Offers Better Quality of Life Than West for the Affluent
“If you have money, India is the best place to live. You get, you know, five mates and driver and everything is taken care of. In the West, you can't do that. You know, like even when you're earning that kind of money, you still need to vacuum your house and, y…”
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Kumar: India will build Salesforce-scale tech giants in 10-20 years
“I think maybe in the next two, 20 years, we will see something like the next wave. Like, you know, now we are building products. It's all about now. How do you build a large scale products like Salesforce or Microsoft? It will happen. Eventually it will happen…”